Quotes About Hunger

En mand kan være brødløs, har han potet så er han ikke matløs.

I had remarked so plainly that, whenever I had been hungry for any length of time, it was just as if my brains ran quite gently out of my head and left me with a vacuum--my head grew light and far off, I no longer felt its weight on my shoulders, and I had a consciousness that my eyes stared far too widely open when I looked at anything.

It was in those days when I wandered about hungry in Kristiania, that strange city which no one leaves before it has set its mark upon him. . . .

I was drunk with starvation; my hunger had made me tipsy.

I had noticed very clearly that every time I went hungry a little too long it was as though my brains simply ran quietly out of my head and left me empty. My head became light and floating. I could no longer feel its weight on my shoulders, and I had the sense that my eyes were remaining far too open when I looked at anything.

He was hungry, and his first thought was to collect a dozen or two gulls' eggs to make a meal. But embryo chicks were forming in all of them. So he rowed out to do some fishing and was more succesful. He lived on fish from day to day and sang and whiled the time away and ruled over the island. When it rained he too shelter beneath a splendid overhangig rock. At night he slept on a patch of grass and the sun never set.

You want this?' I raised my gaze, gasping at the dark hunger in his expression. My mind blanked. Want his body? How could I not? He was pure temptation. 'I meant this,' he held up my bag, 'but I could easily be persuaded to share anything else my wife might desire.

At that, I closed my eyes. I could feel Jackson's gaze on me, even before Matthew said —He stares. He stares. He hungers to know what's behind your false face. The curiosity burns him.— I turned in to Matthew, wanting to hear more. False face? Is that why he looks like he hates me? —Loathe/love. Hurting/hating.—

Fat babies! Don't they sound delicious? But I've never eaten any, because my conscience tells me it is wrong. If I had no conscience I would probably eat the babies and then get hungry again, which would mean that I had sacrificed the poor babies for nothing. No; hungry I was born, and hungry I shall die. But I'll not have any cruel deeds on my conscience to be sorry for.

One of the truths of our time is the hunger deep in people are over the planet for coming into relationship with each other.

Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve.

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

I want nothing to do with any religion concerned with keeping the masses satisfied to live in hunger, filth, and ignorance.

You cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment.

Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life.

Lucy woke with the munchies the night the kidnappers came for her.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

Most courage comes from being too tired and hungry to be afraid anymore.

The timid die of hunger, the bold of overeating.

That is the real tragedy: poverty and hunger are not as shocking as willful indifference to them.

Each year the US population spends more money on diets than the amount needed to feed all the hungry people in the rest of the world.

There are no longer natural famines in the world; there are only political famines. If people in Syria, Sudan or Somalia starve to death, it is because some politician wants them to. In

Starving children have no liberties.

There are no longer natural famines in the world; there are only political famines. If people in Syria, Sudan or Somalia starve to death, it is because some politician wants them